Metadata Exchange without pain: the AGRIS AP to harvest and exchange quality metadata ?ppt?
Presenter: Johannes Keizer

Shanghai September 2004 (http://dc2004.library.sh.cn/english/prog/)

Johannes Keizer was also member of the Program Committee

Johannes Keizer was Chair of the Workshop on Multilinguality

Adviser for metadata and vocabulary issues in the e-publishing and virtual library elements of the trust. Participation in the Business meeting of the e-publishing initiative in Cali, Colombia with and advisory role for metadata standards.

Mechanisms for Documenting and Disseminating Outputs
of Agricultural Research in Sub-Saharan Africa
CAB International Africa Regional Centre
12-14 May 2004 - Nairobi, Kenya

An Expert Consultation was co-organized with CAB International with the overall aim of developing a strategic vision for documentation and dissemination of agricultural knowledge and research in Africa.

Fifth Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) Workshop
27 - 29 April 2004, Beijing, China

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The Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) workshops bring together metadata and ontology experts
and researchers interested in the AOS project. The fifth AOS Workshop builds on the successes of
previous workshops held in Rome, Oxford, Florida, and Copenhagen. The fifth AOS workshop will
provide an opportunity for information management specialists in Asia to learn about the AOS and to

An important activity in 2004 is the Organization of AGRIS/IMARK capacity building workshops. In
January a workshop was organized in Hyderabad (India) for Participants from South Asia, in late
March in Accra (Ghana) and in May in Nairobi (Kenya